Across
- 2. Why the author wrote the text. Examples include to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
- 4. An opinion supported by reasons and evidence.
- 6. Nonfiction texts written to inform or explain.
- 8. A type of essay written to convince the reader to agree with a certain point of view.
- 10. Who or what the sentence is about.
- 11. A personal belief.
Down
- 1. An incomplete sentence.
- 3. A sentence that joins too many ideas together without proper punctuation.
- 5. A word that shows the relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence. Can be used to show place (behind, beside, etc.) or time (before, during, etc.).
- 7. What the subject does or is.
- 9. “A,” “an,” and “the” used before nouns.